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Name
Giorgio Orelli
Role
Poet
Died
November 10, 2013, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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Giorgio Orelli (May 25, 1921 – November 10, 2013) was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator.
He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he was a student of the Roman philologist Gianfranco Contini. He taught Italian Literature at the Higher School of Commerce in Bellinzona.
Giorgio Orelli was a post-hermetic poet. In the anthology of Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba he appeared as a poet of the Fourth Generation. Called the Tuscan from Ticino by Gianfranco Contini, Orelli was often associated with the "Lombard Line" of "sober moral realism".
He was also known as a translator of Goethe and Andri Peer. He contributed to various literary magazines (Il Verri, Paragone, Letteratura).
Giorgio Orelli died in Bellinzona in 2013. He was the cousin of the writer Giovanni Orelli and the uncle of the alpine skier Michela Figini.
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Poetic works
Né bianco né viola, Lugano, Collana di Lugano, 1944.
Prima dell'anno nuovo, Bellinzona, Leins e Vescovi, 1952.
Poesie, Milano, Edizioni della Meridiana, 1953.
Nel cerchio familiare, Milano, Scheiwiller, 1960.
L'ora del tempo, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1962.
6 poesie, Milano, Scheiwiller, 1964.
5 poesie, con 5 seriografie di Madja Ruperti, San Nazzaro, Switzerland, Serigrafia San Nazzaro, 1973.
by Jean Garrigue, Translations by American Poets, Ohio University Press, Ohio, 1970
by Lynne Lawner,
by Marco Sonzogni [2],
Proses
Un giorno della vita, Milano, Lerici, 1960.
Pomeriggio bellinzonese in Luci e figure di Bellinzona negli acquerelli di William Turner e nelle pagine di Giorgio Orelli, a cura di Virgilio Gilardoni, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1978.
Translations
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Poesie scelte, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1974.
Essays
Accertamenti verbali, Milano, Bompiani, 1978.
Quel ramo del lago di Como, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1982 e 1990.
Accertamenti montaliani, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1984.
Il suono dei sospiri, Torino, Einaudi, 1990.
Foscolo e la danzatrice, Parma, Pratiche, 1992.
La qualità del senso. Dante, Ariosto e Leopardi, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 2012.
Awards
1944 Premio Lugano
1960 Premio Città di Firenze, Premio Libera Stampa
1979 Honorary Degree, University of Fribourg
1988 Grand Prix Schiller of the Swiss Schiller Foundation